Jesus – Red Letter Christians

I’m Drinking Coffee With Jesus

October 15, 2020

Maybe with time things would have worked themselves out but I didn’t wait, I didn’t suffer through it. I bought the coffee and every morning I pressed the grounds down with my fears and filled an empty Wonder Woman mug with that hot drink.

Love for Enemies

Paul Demer

October 14, 2020

Art, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

As we seek to do justice let’s not forget to love kindness and walk humbly with our God, even in 2020. They will know we are Christians by our love.

Why “All Letters Matter” isn’t a Good Response to Red Letter Christians

Tim Otto

October 7, 2020

Church Life, LGBTQ+, Theology

Theoretically at least, a verse from Leviticus had as much weight as a command from Jesus. This kind of Bible reading has dangerous consequences.

Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations

Jon Mathieu

September 25, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Theology

God clearly was not concerned with capitalist sensibilities. God’s sense of justice was not constrained by the laws of the free market or Friedman’s shareholder theory. What is fair and right and just in God’s eyes is for no one to live in poverty

Hurts That Hurt: A Litany for Surviving Trauma and Finding Help for Healing

Elaina Ramsey

August 19, 2020

Books, Church Life, General

For those of us who have survived war, abandonment, cancer, abuse, the loss of a loved one, or generational trauma, this litany is for us.

Imagining a Christian Resistance

Bjorn Philip Beer

August 4, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

I became, in a way, an amateur scholar of fascist movements as I studied my family members involvement. What side would I be on? I always asked myself.

Political Propaganda is Destroying Christianity

Stephen Mattson

July 29, 2020

Global, Politics, Theology

Instead of loving our neighbors, “Christian” propaganda will tell us to deport them, ban them, incarcerate them, discriminate against them, outlaw them, and even bomb them. It will attempt to silence the oppressed and amplify the oppressor.